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Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are instances of Graph Neural Networks that leverage the graph to send messages over the edges. This inductive bias leads to a phenomenon known as over-squashing, where a node feature is insensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Francesco Di Giovanni , Lorenzo Giusti , Federico Barbero , Giulia Luise , Pietro Lio' , Michael Bronstein

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are composed of layers consisting of graph convolutions and pointwise nonlinearities. Due to their invariance and stability properties, GNNs are provably successful at learning representations from data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Luana Ruiz , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

While graph neural networks (GNNs) have allowed researchers to successfully apply neural networks to non-Euclidean domains, deep GNNs often exhibit lower predictive performance than their shallow counterparts. This phenomena has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Keqin Wang , Yulong Yang , Ishan Saha , Christine Allen-Blanchette

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully leveraged for learning on graph-structured data across domains, several potential pitfalls have been described recently. Those include the inability to accurately leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lukas Fesser , Melanie Weber

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have become pivotal in recommendation systems for learning user and item embeddings by leveraging the user-item interaction graph's node information and topology. However, these models often face the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Leilei Ding , Dazhong Shen , Chao Wang , Tianfu Wang , Le Zhang , Yanyong Zhang

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) with the powerful capacity to explore graph-structural data has gained noticeable success in recent years. Nonetheless, most of the existing GCN-based models suffer from the notorious over-smoothing issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zhaoliang Chen , Zhihao Wu , Zhenghong Lin , Shiping Wang , Claudia Plant , Wenzhong Guo

Graph convolutional networks have been successfully applied in various graph-based tasks. In a typical graph convolutional layer, node features are updated by aggregating neighborhood information. Repeatedly applying graph convolutions can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Haimin Zhang , Min Xu , Guoqiang Zhang , Kenta Niwa

The smoothing issue in graph learning leads to indistinguishable node representations, posing significant challenges for graph-related tasks. However, our experiments reveal that this problem can uncover underlying properties of node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xiangyu Dong , Xingyi Zhang , Yanni Sun , Lei Chen , Mingxuan Yuan , Sibo Wang

Deep neural networks are ubiquitously adopted in many applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing, and graph analytics. However, well-trained neural networks can make prediction errors after deployment as the world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zhimeng Jiang , Zirui Liu , Xiaotian Han , Qizhang Feng , Hongye Jin , Qiaoyu Tan , Kaixiong Zhou , Na Zou , Xia Hu

Hypergraphs are a generalized data structure of graphs to model higher-order correlations among entities, which have been successfully adopted into various research domains. Meanwhile, HyperGraph Neural Network (HGNN) is currently the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Jing Huang , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

The graph neural network (GNN) has demonstrated its superior performance in various applications. The working mechanism behind it, however, remains mysterious. GNN models are designed to learn effective representations for graph-structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Zepeng Zhang , Ziping Zhao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited state-of-the-art performance across wide-range of domains such as recommender systems, material design, and drug repurposing. Yet message-passing GNNs suffer from over-squashing -- exponential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Danial Saber , Amirali Salehi-Abari

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for addressing learning problems on graph structures, with a wide range of applications in molecular biology and social networks. However, the theoretical foundations underlying their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Dhiraj Patel , Anton Savostianov , Michael T. Schaub

A common issue in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is known as over-smoothing. By increasing the number of iterations within the message-passing of GNNs, the nodes' representations of the input graph align with each other and become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Christian M. M. Frey , Yunpu Ma , Matthias Schubert

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been proved to be very practical to handle various graph-related tasks. It has attracted considerable research interest to study deep GCNs, due to their potential superior performance compared with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Lei Zhang , Xiaodong Yan , Jianshan He , Ruopeng Li , Wei Chu

Curvature notions on graphs provide a theoretical description of graph topology, highlighting bottlenecks and denser connected regions. Artifacts of the message passing paradigm in Graph Neural Networks, such as oversmoothing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Floriano Tori , Lorenzo Bini , Marco Sorbi , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet , Vincent Ginis

Interpreting graph neural networks (GNNs) is difficult because message passing mixes signals and internal channels rarely align with human concepts. We study superposition, the sharing of directions by multiple features, directly in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Lukas Pertl , Han Xuanyuan , Pietro Liò

Graph Convolution Networks (GCN) are widely used in learning graph representations due to their effectiveness and efficiency. However, they suffer from the notorious over-smoothing problem, in which the learned representations of densely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Xin Xin , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M. Jose

Graph neural networks (GNNs) work remarkably well in semi-supervised node regression, yet a rigorous theory explaining when and why they succeed remains lacking. To address this gap, we study an aggregate-and-readout model that encompasses…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-20 Juntong Chen , Claire Donnat , Olga Klopp , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Current GNN-oriented NAS methods focus on the search for different layer aggregate components with shallow and simple architectures, which are limited by the 'over-smooth' problem. To further explore the benefits from structural diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Guosheng Feng , Chunnan Wang , Hongzhi Wang